{"id":1912,"date":"2010-07-01T15:14:11","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T20:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=1912"},"modified":"2010-07-01T15:14:11","modified_gmt":"2010-07-01T20:14:11","slug":"supreme-court-nominee-elena-kagan-and-torture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/01\/supreme-court-nominee-elena-kagan-and-torture\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan and Torture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phil Giraldi makes an excellent observation on Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan in his <strong>Antiwar<a href=\"http:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/giraldi\/2010\/06\/30\/executive-privilege\/\">.com column<\/a><\/strong> today: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>New Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan has described retired Israeli Judge Aharon Barak as her &#8220;judicial hero.&#8221;  Barak is sometimes described as a liberal, but a review of his decisions reveals that he has always sided with the Israeli government in cases where arbitrary behavior by the state was being challenged.  He also established the legal guidelines that enabled torture by the Israeli authorities.  Kagan herself is of a like mind, favoring government prerogatives, executive privilege and secrecy even when there is no clear legal reason to deny access to information.  In one recent case Kagan successfully argued that the Supreme Court should overturn a New York appeals court ruling to permit the release of photographs of foreign prisoners being abused by their American captors. The American Civil Liberties Union argued for the release of the photos while Obama and the Pentagon against. Kagan, in her role as solicitor general, argued that US military personnel would be endangered if the photos were to become public.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If there has been a groundswell of criticism of Kagan&#8217;s tacit embrace of torture, I have missed it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phil Giraldi makes an excellent observation on Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan in his Antiwar.com column today: New Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan has described retired Israeli Judge Aharon Barak as her &#8220;judicial hero.&#8221; Barak is sometimes described as a liberal, but a review of his decisions reveals that he has always sided with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[22,659,12],"class_list":{"0":"post-1912","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"tag-attention-deficit-democracy","8":"tag-torture"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan and Torture - James Bovard<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/01\/supreme-court-nominee-elena-kagan-and-torture\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan and Torture - James Bovard\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Phil Giraldi makes an excellent observation on Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan in his Antiwar.com column today: New Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan has described retired Israeli Judge Aharon Barak as her &#8220;judicial hero.&#8221; 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